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(Reuters) - R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles has been chosen to sing the national anthem at President Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony on January 21, the presidential inauguration committee said Wednesday.

The performer has been a regular guest at the White House. With her husband, rapper Jay-Z, the chart-topper has been a major donor to Obama's campaign.

Four years ago, Knowles serenaded the first couple with Etta James' "At Last" at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball. This time around she gets the headlining anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," at the inauguration ceremony.

Knowles' presidential performance likely won't even be her most-watched moment of the winter. She is scheduled to sing at the February 3 Super Bowl before what is consistently the largest U.S. television audience of the year.

Country star Kelly Clarkson is scheduled to give a rendition of "My Country, 'Tis of Thee."

Describing herself as a "Republican at heart," Clarkson made headlines by voicing support for Obama in October, just before the November 6 presidential election.

James Taylor, who performed at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, in August, will sing "America the Beautiful."

In 2009, Aretha Franklin sang the national anthem at the inauguration, but it was the soul queen's hat with its giant, rhinestoned bow that left one of the most lasting impressions of the ceremony.

[click to choose]Aretha Franklin's legendary headress, a bejewelled gray hat with a giant bow tie the size of her head, the one she have donned on the Clinton Inaugurals in 1992(See Photo on top); the headress costs about 3$ in 1992 and 178$ in 2009, wearing similar outfit and singing the same song "Let Freedom Ring", resurfaces at the Obama Inaugurals January 2009. Almost seventeen years of toll gave her triple chin from a double chin, she now wears false eyelashes and instead of former President Clinton and whitehouse well-wishers, she got a whole battalion of navy seals in nautical all-white uniforms on the backdrop. Who said we are not ready for re-runs after Quantum of Solace last year, right Corine?Aretha Franklin sings at Barack Obama's inaugurationGeorge C. Palaganas Ph.D. Says: January 21st, 2009 at 9:15 pm Aretha Franklin’s legendary head dress from the Clinton inaugurals in 1992 resurfaces with the Obama inauguration. We just hope the next presidential candidate’s platform will not be ‘a return to a kinder, gentler America’. President Obama is a great speaker, one that we will remember for years to come.

The legendary singer performed the song in front of the Capitol Building on Capitol Hill, where millions of people have gathered to see the new President sworn in.

Obama has been joined by his wife Michelle and his two daughters for the ceremony, with Franklin performing while wearing a black outfit including an enormous bow on her head.

Following Franklin's performance, new Vice-President Joe Biden was sworn in, and then after the performance of a piece of music written by 'Star Wars' soundtrack composer John Williams - Obama himself was sworn in as the the 44th President of the United States Of America.

Optimistic people always look at life like they are looking over rose-colored glass windows so to speak. But life isn't tardiness and all of that.There are instances when we are faced with windows that blurrs and burrs. Like we are looking over a glass window of mists ... of Gotsizk MIST!

Mary Dorothy Mc Veigh is not an ordinary girl.She has a gift or a curse,maybe. A fountain of shimmering light stays always next to her feet since birth.Small items are dropped, novelty items comes out of it!Her mother is fond of telling stories how the fountain of shimmering light became a cathole for their pet Frauline when Dorothy was still a baby.Though she never saw Frauline after that anymore, a tiny marble came out from it. A metal marble that resembles a loadstone.Dorothy dropped her spoon and fork on the magical hole one time,and there came-out, Roger Rabbit, in 3D!

A local Seattle Columnists has to meet the current hot author ofthe book, BASICA, Jim Fastbender, for a feature column interview. Whilemost of their conversations delved on the current hot book BASICA, anda lot of referrals to it's purported predecessor book, EX-MACHINA,a romance between columnist and author starts to ignite.

Notable Notes: The Elkins Mansion literally sits on top of a giant stone. The 3 decks 30 window mansion was once the home of Jesuits in Quink. The setting is Mid-Summer(Solstice) when nighttime doesn't fall until almost midnight or about 9 pm. Lady Baumgarten went to the occassion wearing Victorian dresses from Olays. Rebecca Heiss was invited to play the cello. The event is all day and the new Lady or Lord of Elkins mansion to whom the estate is bequested is not announced until after dinner.

Notable Notes: The Elkins Mansion literally sits on top of a giant stone. The 3 decks 30 window mansion was once the home of Jesuits in Quink. The setting is Mid-Summer(Solstice) when nighttime doesn't fall until almost midnight or about 9 pm. Lady Baumgarten went to the occassion wearing Victorian dresses from Olays. Rebecca Heiss was invited to play the cello. The event is all day and the new Lady or Lord of Elkins mansion to whom the estate is bequested is not announced until after dinner.

Get a preview of The Millennium Man THE MUSICAL for SRCS Class of 1986 PEARL Celebrations(2016) – Pericles, Helicanus, Wicked and other first and third Millennium characters get entangled with Lance, Jennifer and Nancy of the second millennium in the opening act in a sequence even Eris will envy ,LOL! The Continuation of Opening Sequence with Mr. Roboto of STYX. Elton John’s Can;t You Feel The Love Tonight for SEQUENCE 65. Lance and Jessica meets at the West Side(West Coast) with My Only Hope, Within and Beyond Compare. Driving sequence with Jessie and SEA SONG. Group Dance with Dessini Senang and I’ll Remember(with Walis Tambo). Sexy choreo scenes with Why don’t you do it right?, We Are Prostitutes and Around The World in A Day. * The Man Projects… with I Am Not James Dean and If You’re Still Around, BAG Dance sequence with Marry The Night, Living On My Own and All I Care About Is Love. Final Dance Choreo… Take On Me . End theme: Don’t Speak

ACT 1 SCENE 1 (At the start of the Musical, Darkness In All of the Theatre will be implemented. Only exit signs will be lighted.)On stage: Helicanus, Pericles, Harry The Prince/Princess,Dodo, WickedThe Stage is set with a mounted smaller stage with a gameshow sign “THE MILLENNIUM MAN” with hanging computer tablets(so they can “guess” the secrets and salts and a widescreen shows their output including the apps used in guessing the secrets). The seats on the gameshow can flip-out and drop a contestant into a slide towards a pool of dye if he fails to get the secret on time.

(A single kleig light radiates on the face of Helicanus.)Helicanus: “Don’t touch that remote control! Men ,Women and Droid dyed in creating this side of the network in beautiful and young California! We bring you the number one Game Show in the networking this side of the Millennium!”

CHORUS: Do you know how lucky you are?

Helicanus: Down on your knees, before the pentoker of ultimates, the mega-downy of the intergalactic universe!

Dodo: Angono? Of the whole prick and zone.

Helicanus: End of triangles!Dodo: They give me Light.Harry: Lights…

CHORUS: Let there be lights!

Harry: Philippine redirects from Baguio Tring. In Miss Universe inside his dooms… As his TRING once send let there be a blink. (The icon on the gameshow sign THE MILLENNIUM MAN will blink).